Form and train a local watershed assessment team, assess watersheds and coral reefs, establish baselines and develop restoration plans together with the village councils. Project will build capacity to restore two watersheds, enhance survivorship of the threatened coral species Isopora crateriformis, and support subsistence fisheries in economically challenged indigenous Polynesian communities.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
National Coastal Resilience Fund
Project Title: Evaluating Watersheds to Support Subsistence Fisheries and Protect at Risk Coral Species (AS)
Organization:
American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources
Project ID:
0318.24.081584
Description:
Award Amount:
$250000.00
Location:
Villages of Amanave, Tutuila Island and south Ofu, Ofu Island, Manua Islands in American Samoa.